THE WORLD #35
1981
Translations issue of the Poetry Project lit mag, with contributions from Bernadette Mayer, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, James Schuyler, Fanny Howe, Gerard Malanga and many others.
BCB New Arrivals
DIVERSION - Number 1 - June 1973
1973
Periodical edited by a member of the American section of the Situationist International, with articles such as "The Poverty of Ecology," "News of Disalienation" (on the Attica prison riots), "Twilight of Idle," and "Views from Near and Afar" (collecting quotations from radical thinkers throughout history).
Event Poster: 9 DUTCH POETS American Tour 1982
1982
Oiriginal Poetry Project poster advertising the appearance of J. Bernlef, Hans Plomb, Lucebert, Remco Campert, Judith Herzberg, J.A. Deelder, Simon Vinkenoog, Bert Schierbeek, and Karel Appel (also the poster's designer.)
THE POETRY PROJECT Event Poster
1981
November 1981 poster advertising The Poetry Project's Monday poetry/performance series, Wednesday readings, and free writing workshops with Maureen Owen and Steve Carey.
ROOSEVELT AFTER INAUGURATION
(1964)
Uncommon Burroughs item from Ed Sanders' legendary mimeo press.
THE HEARING HEART
1974
Inscribed first edition of the English poet's later collection of poems on literary themes and the natural world.
THE HEARING HEART
1974
Limited first edition in wrappers of this later collection by the English poet and editor.
COLORED PEOPLE
1972
Signed copy of the first and only printing of this Ruscha photobook, his second in color.
FARM
1990
Scarce periodical anthology of gay fiction, with contributions from Dennis Cooper, Robert Glück, Brad Gooch, David Sedaris (a very early appearance), Gary Indiana and many others.
THE DECLINE & THE FALL OF THE "SPECTACULAR" COMMODITY-ECONOMY: The Watts Insurrection August, 1965
[ca. 1970s?]
Early reprint of a work by Debord first published in INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE #10 (though uncredited to his name), offering a situationist analysis of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles.
THE FINE BOOK
(1999)
Scarce signed handmade artist's book on the subject of itself, produced in a limited edition of just 20 copies.
NIGHT-BOOK
(1980)
First Bard edition of Kotzwinkle's early erotic novel, a set of linked contemporary tales presented as "the rare and obscene love tales told each year by the most beautiful women" of classical Greece and originally published in 1974.
A THOUGHT IS THE BRIDE OF WHAT THINKING
1976
First edition of Hejinian's second book (the first was suppressed by the poet and is all but unattainable) and the first title from her Tuumba Press, one of the first and arguably most important outlets for the movement that would soon be known as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.
Original Handbill Advertising the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, June 29 and July 6, 1976
[1976]
Original flyer from a series of dates that would help define the legendary and infamous band.
THE DHARMA BUMS
(1959)
First UK edition of Kerouac's classic Beat novel, published the year after the U.S. edition, in the striking Bernard Blatch dust jacket.
OP LOSSE SCHROEVEN: Situaties en Cryptostructuren
1969
Scarce catalogue of the 1969 exhibition of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art, less known but as innovative and groundbreaking as the same year's more-mythologized "When Attitudes Become Form," and similarly an expression of its own curator's personality and vision.
TERCERA BIENAL DE LA HABANA '89 CATALOGO
1989
Rare catalogue of the third Havana Biennial, a rich and energetic exhibition with a global reach, curated by the staff of the Centro Wifredo Lam under Cuba's Ministry of Culture, opening a week before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
MAGICIENS DE LA TERRE
(1989)
First edition catalogue of this major international exhibition, conceived as a anti-colonialist corrective to the contemporary art-world ethnocentrism typified by MoMA's much-criticized 1985 "Primitivism" show.
ONE YEAR PERFORMANCE 1981-1982
(1983)
Rare signed portfolio documenting Hsieh's third extended performance piece, a full year in New York City spent outside shelter of any kind (save for 15 hours inside a police station courtesy of the NYPD), issued in conjunction with an installation at Franklin Furnace.
LIVE IN YOUR HEAD - WHEN ATTITUDES BECOME FORM
(1969)
Uncommon catalogue of Szeemann's innovative and controversial 1969 exhibition, an international survey of Postminimalist and Arte Povera work which played a major role in redefining the role of the modern curator.
UNLESS
(1977)
First edition of this collection of poems from the third generation New York School poet.
MATTER - No. 2 - July 1964
1964
Second issue of this periodical, with contributions from Charles Olson, Jackson Mac Low, Aram Saroyan, Theodore Enslin, Diane Wakoski, and Ed Dorn.
FLASH AND FILIGREE
(1958)
First US edition of Southern's first novel (published just after the UK edition), inscribed "with great admiration" to V.S. Pritchett.
BLUE MOVIE
(1970)
First printing of Southern's notorious comedy of the adult film industry and Hollywood's artistic pretensions, warmly inscribed to poet Richard Howard.
FLASH AND FILIGREE
(1958)
First edition of Southern's first novel, inscribed to legendary editor and critic Malcolm Cowley, who appreciated the younger writer as well as he was able.
